Molecular cloning of rat uncoupling protein 2 cDNA and its expression in genetically obese Zucker fatty (fa/fa) rats

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism

Volumn 1389, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 178-186

  Hidaka, Shuji ^a   Kakuma, Tetsuya ^a   Yoshimatsu, Hironobu ^a   Yasunaga, Seikoh ^a   Kurokawa, Mamoru ^a   Sakata, Toshiie ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

(Zucker fatty rat); Amino acid sequence; cDNA cloning; Gene expression; Leptin; Uncoupling protein 2

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPIDIDYMIS; HEART; LUNG; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN; THERMOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OBESITY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RATS, ZUCKER; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032559169     PISSN: 00052760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2760(97)00188-4     Document Type: Article

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